Finance Department (rev. 09/2023)
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SCHEDULE S
Slavery Era Disclosure Affidavit
In 2005, the City Council adopted Oakland Municipal Code Chapter 9.60 Slavery Era Disclosure pursuant to Ordinance No.12686 C.M.S. The ordinance requires contractors doing business with the City to complete an affidavit verifying that the contractor searched through all its records regarding people subjected to slavery.
Please check either (1), (2), or (3) below. If the Business Entity checks (3), it must disclose all information required by (3).
I, _____________ [Name], the undersigned, a _________________________ [Title] of ___ _____________ [Business Entity] (hereinafter referred to as “Business Entity”) declare the following as true and correct to the best of my knowledge and understanding:
1. I declare that the Business Entity does not provide (a) insurance or financial services and (b) is not a textile, tobacco, railroad, shipping, rice and/or sugar company doing business with the City.
2. I declare that the Business Entity has found no records after searching through any and all records in the possession, control and/or knowledge of the Business Entity, its parent entities, subsidiaries and any predecessors in interest, for records that the Business Entity, its parent entities, subsidiaries and any predecessors in interest bought or sold people subjected to slavery, used people subjected to slavery as collateral, provided loans to purchase people subjected to slavery, insured such transactions or the people subjected to slavery during the slavery era and/or provided related or other services to aid and abet such transactions, including insurance policies issued to slaveholders that provided coverage for damage to or injury or death of enslaved Africans.
3. I verify that, as a result of conducting the search in step (2) above, the Business Entity has found records of investments or profits from slavery or slaveholder insurance policies. I verify that the following constitutes full disclosure of all such records, including the names of each slave and slaveholder described in those records and/or evidence of transactions that benefited/profited from American slavery.
Please check this box to indicate your understanding of the following statements:
a. I understand that completed affidavits and disclosure reports shall be made available to the public upon request after consultation with the City Attorney and any contractor who willfully or recklessly files a false affidavit or other statement or fails to file the required disclosure shall be subject to t
ermination of the contract with the City. I understand that the City Administrator may take action to ter
minate the contract, and the City Attorney or any Oakland resident may bring action to mandate disclosure or correct any misstatement as well as reasonable attorney’s fees and costs. b. I understand that I can make voluntary contributions to the established Fund 2422 to promote healing and assist the City in rectifying and remedying some of the legacies of the shameful commerce in sl
avery.
(Signature of Business Owner) (Printed Name of Business Owner) (Date)
ATTACHMENT B